is next. and that's coming up. and if john boehner wants to stay as speaker of the house, the thing he's going to have to tell his members is that he's going to play just as hard on that as the president played on these taxes and that he's got to be willing, if he wants to do this, if what mitch mcconnell, who is the architect of this deal on the republican side in the senate, if what he says is going to be true, that means the republicans have to be willing to do some pretty terrible stuff, like get the blame for shutting down the government. get the blame for throwing the economy into recession, really do those things. so the question is this, megyn, are they willing to do now what they weren't willing to do before? that is, shall we say, an open question? >> well, maybe it is. i don't know. and they is say past is prologue. on the money front, it did -- not everybody, it wasn't just the rich. the rich paid more, but there were some people who got some good deals out of this fiscal cliff deal and it includes a bunch of hollywood producers who apparently received 430 million dollars i
